Ligue des nations: les Bleus ratent leur “der”…

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La France s’est fait concasser 2-0 par le Danemark, dimanche à Copenhague, et ne doit son maintien dans l’élite de la Ligue des nations qu’à la défaite de l’Autriche, une maigre consolation pour des champions du monde peu fringants à deux mois du Qatar.

Les Bleus étaient certes affaiblis par une cohorte de blessés pour le choc face à la “Danish Dynamite”, séduisante demi-finaliste du dernier Euro, mais ils avaient suffisamment de réserve pour espérer réduire au silence le bruyant Parken et ses quelque 36.000 supporters rouge et blanc.

Las, ils ont souffert face aux coups de boutoir adverses, coulant même avant la mi-temps devant Kasper Dolberg (34e) et Andreas Skov Olsen (39e).

C’est une bien triste dernière sortie qu’ont livré les Bleus avant le grand départ pour Doha, où ils recroiseront la route des Danois le 26 novembre pour leur deuxième match du Mondial.

Heureusement pour eux, la Croatie de Luka Modric est allée s’imposer 3-1 à Vienne dans le même temps, ce qui précipite l’Autriche en Ligue B de la Ligue des nations, l’équivalent de la deuxième division, plutôt que la France qui compte un point de plus.

La campagne tricolore était partie de travers en juin, avec quatre matches sans victoire, et le succès jeudi contre l’Autriche (2-0) n’aura été qu’une rare éclaircie dans la grisaille.

“Les ingrédients nécessaires, on les a mis il y a trois jours, pas aujourd’hui”, a constaté Didier Deschamps sur TF1. Mais “il ne faut pas s’inquiéter”, a nuancé le sélectionneur, conscient de pouvoir “récupérer tous les joueurs ou la grande majorité” des blessés d’ici le Mondial.

En attendant, la série noire est rare pour les Bleus, aussi sombre que la cascade de forfait qui a accompagné cette rentrée des classes, de Paul Pogba à N’Golo Kanté, en passant par Hugo Lloris, Presnel Kimpembe, les frères Theo et Lucas Hernandez, Kingsley Coman et Karim Benzema.

– Camavinga, retour raté –

Dans ce contexte, le patron des Bleus a misé sur une équipe beaucoup moins expérimentée qu’à l’accoutumée, peuplée de joueurs ayant pour certains une pression énorme sur les épaules: celle de séduire pour intégrer la liste du Mondial, attendue dans la semaine du 7 novembre.

Du haut de ses 19 ans, Eduardo Camavinga a renfilé le bleu de chauffe pour la première fois en deux ans, avec un résultat peu reluisant. Le milieu du Real Madrid a perdu des ballons, manqué d’impact et créé trop peu d’occasions.

Deschamps l’a même remplacé à la mi-temps par Youssouf Fofana qui, trois jours après son baptême de l’air, s’est montré plus consistant aux côtés d’Aurélien Tchouaméni. Ce dernier fait partie, a contrario, des Bleus qui montent depuis plusieurs mois, peu importe ses binômes (Pogba, Kanté, Guendouzi, Kamara, Rabiot…).

A Copenhague, la vague rouge a submergé par séquences la jeune garde tricolore qui, au coup d’envoi, comptait cinq sélections en moyenne avec le gardien Alphonse Areola et les trois centraux Dayot Upamecano (23 ans), Benoît Badiashile et William Saliba (21 ans), ce dernier étant remplacé dès la pause.

Les coups de pied arrêtés et les centres ont fusé et l’absence des remparts habituels, Lloris (forfait en septembre) et Raphaël Varane (remplaçant), s’est remarquée.

Devant, les attaquants n’ont pas trouvé la clé pour tromper Kasper Schmeichel, élu joueur du match, à l’image de la double occasion de Kylian Mbappé à la 67e minute, contrecarrée par le gardien de Nice.

Porteur du brassard pour la première fois, Antoine Griezmann n’a pas eu plus de chance (15e, 70e). Olivier Giroud est lui resté à 49 buts, à deux unités du record de Thierry Henry, sans que l’on sache encore s’il aura l’occasion d’approcher encore la marque de son aîné.

Deschamps maintient le suspense sur l’avenir international du buteur de l’AC Milan, 36 ans la semaine prochaine. Le sélectionneur a maintes fois répété qu’il était “difficile” humainement pour le champion du monde d’être cantonné désormais à un rôle de doublure de Karim Benzema, actuellement forfait.

En tout cas, les interrogations ne manquent pas avant l’annonce de la liste pour le Mondial. Et les inquiétudes, non plus.

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TS Ian update: Storm now 160 miles south of Grand Cayman Loop Cayman Islands

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TS Ian update: Storm now 160 miles south of Grand Cayman Loop Cayman Islands

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Tropical Storm Ian is now located 160 miles south of Grand Cayman and moving northwest at 12 mph.

The system now has maximum sustained winds of 60 mph with minimum central pressure of 991mb.

This is an intermediate update and does not include a change in forecast track or expected conditions. A complete update will be provided with an expanded bulletin at 10:30pm.

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Teen to serve minimum 23 years for murder, rape, buggery of 9-y-o girl Loop Jamaica

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The 17-year-old boy who was convicted of the 2018 rape, buggery and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Westmoreland, has been sentenced to life imprisonment relative to her killing.

The sentence was imposed in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston on Friday, a week after the initial sentencing was delayed due to the absence of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn.

In relation to the mandatory life sentence being imposed on the count of murder, the convicted teenager is to serve 23 years and nine months in prison before he becomes eligible for parole consideration.

This is three more years than the 20 years that Llewellyn had recommended that the convict serve in prison before being eligible for parole consideration.

High Court Judge, Justice Courtney Daye, said the teenager showed no remorse for his actions, and needed to get more years than was being suggested.

The judge also considered that the girl was young, innocent and vulnerable at the time of the incident.

The convicted teen was also sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape, and 10 years for buggery.

The three sentences are to run concurrently, meaning that the teen will serve a minimum of 23 years and nine months in prison.

During the reading of a social enquiry report in court on Friday, the teenager expressed disappointment that he was convicted, and maintained his innocence.

He told a probation officer that the child was killed by two men, who had also raped her.

The teenager claimed that one of the men in particular, squeezed the girl’s neck until her feet stopped moving after he raped her.

But like when those claims were made by the teen during his trial, Llewellyn again rejected his arguments by pointing to the overwhelming scientific evidence that linked him to committing the crime.

According to the evidence that was led at the trial, the girl accepted the teenager’s invitation to pick apples together as they walked home from school.

However, she was sexually assaulted and killed by the teen boy, who contended at the trial that two men raped and killed the girl.

But the teenager admitted to having had sex with the girl after the two men had completed their ‘acts’.

Testimony from a leading DNA expert and forensic evidence proved that material found in the female minor’s anus matched that of the teenage boy.

A pathologist testified, too, that the child died from asphyxia due to manual strangulation, and there were lacerations to her vagina and anus.

Following the hearing of evidence over several days, a six-member jury convicted the teenager of murder, rape and buggery in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on July 1.

Llewellyn, in speaking to reporters after the verdict in July, said the conclusion of the case had negative consequences for both the families of the victim and the convict.

“It’s a tragic situation… (for) the family of the deceased, whose daughter really suffered a brutal end, and the family of the accused, whose son will have to take responsibility for what was a very, very awful moment of youthful exuberance,” she said at the time.

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Teen to spend minimum 10 years behind bars for killing pastor dad Loop Jamaica

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The teenager who confessed to killing his father, Reverend Garnett Foster Snr, after allegedly researching for two months on how to kill his parents, is to spend a minimum of 10 years in jail for the murder.

Garnett Foster Jr, said to be aged between 18 and 19, was sentenced by High Court Judge, Justice Courtney Daye, when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston on Friday.

Daye sentenced the teenager to 15 years in prison.

He was, however, ordered to serve 10 years in prison before being eligible for parole consideration.

According to Daye, the motive for the murder appeared to be the teenager’s resistance to his father’s authority.

During the reading of a social enquiry report, it was heard that Foster Jr researched how to kill his parents for months in advance of the deadly incident.

The report also revealed that the teen confessed to the killing, and he admitted that he should have listened to his father.

Foster Jr had been pulled by his father from Manning’s High School after allegedly joining a gang at the school and engaging in the smoking of marijuana and drinking. This further caused a strain in the relationship with his parents, who the teen both accused of interfering in his life.

Foster Jr’s attorney, Dionne Meyler Barrett, told the court prior to his sentencing that her client had an altercation with his father, during which he (the father) beat him. The teen then grabbed a knife and swung it.

Meyler Barrett said her client had indicated that he did not know where the weapon had lodged, and It was only afterwards that he realised that the weapon had landed in Foster Snr’s neck.

The attorney contended that her client loved his father and was remorseful about his actions.

Foster Snr, a 45-year-old resident of Bullet Tree district in Petersfield, Westmoreland, was the pastor of the Church of God of the Mountain Assembly in the parish.

It was reported that on July 23 this year, the teenager alerted family members who resided elsewhere, that his father was hurt.

Foster Snr was later found with a stab wound to the neck.

He was transported to the hospital, where he later died.

The teenager was taken into custody shortly after, and was subsequently charged with murder.

He pleaded guilty in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on July 26.

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JPS advises of more weather-related power outages Loop Jamaica

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The areas now affected include Whitehouse district and Ballards Valley in St Elizabeth; Golden Grove in St Thomas; and Guava Ridge, Craig Hill and Mavis Bank in St Andrew.

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Speedy United States-bred RUNAWAY ALGO on Sunday served notice ahead of the December 3 US$125,000 Mouttet Mile, going all the way for a comfortable win in the Bridge 99FM feature race for overnight-allowance runners at seven-and-a-half furlongs.

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Music producer and woman booked for sudden gun find Loop Jamaica

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A man and a woman were arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition following an incident in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Thursday, September 15.

They are 27-year-old Romario McKenzie, otherwise called ‘Dads’, a music producer; and 24-yearold Alicia Allwood, otherwise called ‘Poochie’, both of Mansfield Avenue, Homestead in Spanish Town.

Reports are that about 4:45 pm, a police team was in the community when they saw a man sitting beside the roadway. The man had a red object in his hand and there was woman beside him.

The man reportedly got up and went into a yard immediately upon seeing the police, and was followed by the woman.

The man’s actions aroused the suspicions of the police team, and he was pursued.

When accosted, the man was reportedly found attempting to hide the red object.

When the object was retrieved, it was found to be a Browning 9mm pistol.

A drink bottle was also found with four 9mm rounds of ammunition in cornmeal.

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Government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to seek ways to improve water supply to consumers – MOU signed with the Republic of Malta

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As the government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to aggressively improve the supply of water to consumers, Prime Minister the Hon. the Honourable Gaston Browne, last week met with the Honourable Robert Abela, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen technical cooperation between the two countries.

The MoU aims to establish a capacity-building programme for Strategy and Technical personnel at the Antigua and Barbuda Public Utilities Authority (APUA). The programme will comprise of a Pilot Leakage Management Project in isolated water supply zones within the municipal water distribution network. This should result in the development of a holistic and comprehensive leakage Identification, Management and Control strategy. By virtue of this signed MoU, the Government of Malta will provide support for training visits.

Prior to the official signing of the MoU, both leaders candidly exchanged best practices for Water Management Strategies to include production, recycling, and conservation. Prime Minister Abela openly shared Malta’s experience in water infrastructure development to increase production and improve distribution. From his experience, PM Browne welcomed his solutions and iterated that Antigua and Barbuda experiences significant challenges in the water supply that he is eager to address. “If left unattended, the repercussion would be too great. It would mean a plummet in food production and an uptick in food prices that are exacerbated by global crises such as climate change, pandemics, and the Russia-Ukraine war”, said PM Browne.

After the signing, the leaders re-engaged on a plethora of issues that Small Island Development States (SIDS) face. This includes structural vulnerabilities, lack of scale economies, climate change, and decline in the economy owning to global risks and threats. Despite these perilous threats to SIDS, Prime Minister Browne concluded the talks on a positive note by emphasizing SIDS’ fortitude and resilience, forging partnerships on the international platform.

Prime Minister Browne was accompanied by the Hon. E.P. Chet Greene, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Trade, Ambassador Aubrey Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the UN, Ambassador Conrod Hunte, Deputy Permanent Representative and Mr. Tumasie Blair, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations in New York.

The Hon. Robert Abela, Prime Minister of Malta was accompanied by the  Hon. Chris Fearne, Deputy Prime Minister of Malta and Minister for Health;  H.E. Vanessa Frazier, Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Malta to United Nations;  Dr. Michael Farrugia, Member of Parliament;  Mr. Glenn Micallef, Chief of Staff of Prime Minister of Malta;  and Ms. Francesca Cassar, First Secretary – Economic & Development Coordinator, Permanent Mission of Malta to United Nations.

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Bus driver intercepted with 54.2kg marijuana

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Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday arrested a mini-bus driver after over 119 pounds of marijuana was found in his vehicle.

CANU officers, acting on information received, conducted an operation in Beterverwagting Railway Embankment (Line Top), East Coast Demerara, where they intercepted a Route 50 mini bus, bearing license plate number BXX 6792.

A subsequent search of the vehicle in the presence of the driver, who was the lone occupant, unearthed several parcels of suspected cannabis.

The driver, 58-year-old Lal Bahadur ByJoo of Lot 50 Plantation Hope, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice was arrested and escorted to CANU headquarters along with the suspected narcotics where it tested positive for cannabis and had a total weight of 54.2 kg.

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Blogger ‘Leegates’ among three killed within 24 hours in Clarendon Loop Jamaica

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Popular blogger, Leon ‘Leegates’ McNeil, was shot and killed at a party in Hayes, Clarendon on Saturday night, hours after he commented on an earlier double murder that was committed the same day in the parish.

The 36-year-old is the founder and owner of Leegates TV and Entertainment, which has covered several events in Clarendon, including the funeral of the woman and her four children who were slain in June in Cocoa Piece in the parish.

In relation to the killing in Hayes on Saturday, the Hayes police reported that about 8:55 pm on Saturday, McNeil was at a party when a group of men allegedly came up and opened gunfire at him.

When the shooting subsided, another man was found suffering from gunshot wounds.

Both injured persons were assisted to the hospital, where McNeil succumbed to his injuries and the other man was admitted in stable condition.

Police are theorising that McNeil and the injured man were in the wrong place at the wrong time, as gangsters may have been the intended targets of the attackers.

McNeil, in a video earlier on Saturday, which was posted hours before his death, decried the state of shootings across the country while he travelled in his motor vehicle.

“Two man succumbed to dem injuries. A swear mi nuh know wah gwaan. So much shootings. Mi nuh know why so much… tings ah gwaan in ah dem time yah.

“We need God. Mi a wonder if nobody nuh fear God again,” the blogger lamented.

“It is heart-wrenching, it is heart-breaking. Why so much shootings ah gwaan?” he questioned.

He was reacting to news earlier on Saturday that a taxi operator and a passenger were shot and killed by a gunman posing as a passenger on the Portland Cottage main road in Clarendon.

Those deceased are: 39-year-old Derrick Matthews, otherwise called ‘Red Fox’, a taxi operator of Wildman Town, Portland Cottage; and 47-year-old Michael Newland of Board Villa, Lionel Town, both in Clarendon.

Reports are that about 4:10 pm, Matthews was transporting Newland and another man in his vehicle.

On reaching a section of the Portland Cottage main road, Matthews pulled the vehicle over to let off the other man, who had asked for a stop.

Further reports are that the man pulled a firearm and shot both Matthews and Newland. The culprit then fled the scene.

The police were alerted to the area and both men were seen with multiple gunshot wounds inside the vehicle.

They were subsequently pronounced dead at hospital.

On learning about those killings, McNeil took to Facebook live to urge his followers to be “careful out there because a whole heap a tings a gwaan an a whole heap a people involve in some tings.”

Social media users have been reacting with shock, and have largely expressed their sorrow at the news that McNeil, more popularly referred to as Leegates, had been a victim of rampant criminality that he had earlier decried.

“This is so terrible… I just start following him after the funeral of the mother and her kids in Clarendon,” said Skyy Miller, a Facebook user.

“Lee Lee, my heart is broken. I did not expect this news at all… To his family, my deepest condolences,” wrote Jagmiso Biggs in reference to McNeil’s murder.

Another Facebook user, Rajiv Bayley, wrote: “It was great working with you bro, we have worked on so many projects. It was a joy to see you campaign to help poor people and the people in need.

“You will always be remembered Kramp Dem Billgates Leegates TV as a GENERAL and a POOR PEOPLE DEFENDER,” Bayley added.

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